Improved medicine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE MONTGOMERY, OF CANTON, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVED MEDICINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,357, datedAngnst 21, 1866.

Toall whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE MONTGOMERY, of Canton, in the State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Compound for Ba]- sam; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, complete, and exact description thereof, viz:

No. 1 is tincture of lobelia. No. 2 is con1- mon number six. No.3 is common bloodroot (tincture) No. at is laud-anum. No. 5 is tincture of anise. No. 6 is tincture of sassafras. No. 7 is hoarhound. No. S is pleurisy-root. No. 9 is common molasses. No. 10 is the compound.

The nature of my invention consists in the combination of relaxants, stimulants, an tispasmodics, expectorants, diaphoretics, and sialagogues, in such proportions as will act the most'beneficially in removing pulmonary difficulties and similar diseases.

To enable others skilled in the art to compound and use my balsam, I will describe the method and how the medicine should be taken.

I use two pounds each of Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and hve pounds of No. 7, and three pounds of No. 8, and put the ingredients into any suitable receptacle and add eight gallons of pure water, and then boil down to three gallons over a slow fire. I then add four. gallons of good molasses, and let the mixture stand until cool, at which time it can be bottled for use.

It is not necessary that the proportions given above should be strictly adhered to, for differ ent quantities of each may be compounded and yet produce a good remedy; but the proportions given will produce the best medicine. The medicinal qualities of the above-named ingredients are too well known to need an explanation.

The compound as above described possesses properties peculiarly applicable to the treating of coughs, colds, bronchitis, and pulmonary consumption not found in any medicine now in use, and when administered according to the following directions will cure very many of the difticulties of the lungs and throat that have been considered incurable.

The dose for an adult person should be one table-spoonful from two to three times a day.

The dose for a child or a person very low and feeble should be a tea-spoonful three times a day. l

Of course no given amount of the compound wouldsuit all cases, for much depends upon the condition of the system and the advanced stage of the disease.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-- A pulmonary balsam, as herein described, when compounded of the ingredients specified,

\Vitnesses E. B. SHUMAN, GEo. L. CHAPIN. 

